Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?